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Only 2% of current properties listed for sale in London have a tenant in situ, according to lettings agency Benham and...

The latest official government rent index shows that average private rents across the UK as a whole increased by 9.2% in...

Rental growth in Britain has slowed says lettings agency Hamptons, with the average newly let rent rising 6.7% over the past...

The head of lettings agency Benham and Reeves has made an outspoken attack on stamp duty. The agency analysed data from the...

The popular narrative may have been that first time buyers have been priced out of the market, partly by landlords: but...

Changes to empty home council tax rates could generate an additional £540m from Monday, a lettings agency claims. Since April 2013, billing...

Rental growth continued to cool in February, says the latest market snapshot from lettings agency Hamptons.   Last month, the average rent on...

Some 89% of higher-rate and 100% of lower-rate taxpaying landlords who sell will see their Capital Gains Tax bill rise in...

According to Haslams lettings agency’s latest House Price Index, a new hotspot has emerged for private rental sector investors. It claims Reading...

Average rents on newly let properties across Britain rose 8.3 per cent year-on-year in January, the slowest pace for 13 months...

A prominent lettings agency has hit out at the latest changes to safety regulations that private landlords must comply with or...

A wealthy landlord, who also ran a fake lettings agency, has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

Landlords are being invited to a forum organised by a council’s own private lettings service and the National Residential Landlords Association. The...

Two new reports - from lettings agency Foxtons and data consultancy LonRes - show London’s rental market returning to pre-pandemic normality. Foxtons...

Newham council in London has won what it calls a landmark case against a convicted rogue landlord. The court has dismissed the...

Despite a sharp fall in the number of homes bought by landlords in 2023, the number of limited companies set up...

A merger of two of the biggest names in the lettings agency world will mean the combined group managing 152,000 rental...

New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert.  David Alexander -...

A London lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for not paying compensation to a landlord following a failure...

London has seen the strongest rental growth over the last year according to an analysis by lettings agency Hamptons.   The average rent...

Campaigning charity Shelter has welcomed the decision by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance - but it wants it...

Many have welcomed the move by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze the Local Housing Allowance - but some tenant activists say...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry.  The Local Housing Allowance is...

A council’s version of a private lettings agency is inviting landlords to an event co-organised by the National Residential Landlords Association. Ashford...

Landlords have been selling more homes than they bought in every year since 2016 when a raft of tax and regulatory...

New research from lettings agency Benham and Reeves has shown that while net rental yields have increased over the last year,...

A leading lettings agency and property consultancy has revealed that it anticipates stronger-than-expected rental growth this year and next in prime...

It’s the number of homes changing hands rather than their price that’s bearing the brunt of the slowdown say research chiefs...

Landlords are reducing their stock - and they’re blaming the Tories for creating a hostile environment.  This is according to the latest...

Rents will rise 25 per cent over the next four years, outpacing the modest 5.5 per cent House price growth across...

New analysis reveals that other family members beyond parents are increasingly lending their financial support to first-time buyers.   So far this year...

Families opt to rent so they can move fast to buy a home close to London’s top schools, according to a...

There’s been a clampdown on imprecise wording used in lettings listings. The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team  - which...

Investors selling a buy to let so far in 2023 made gains which were 10.1 per cent lower than those who...

A controversial MP sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this year says he will take up the cause of landlords...

Labour controlled Brent council in London has taken the possibly-unique step of paying a landlord’s legal fees and rent to avert...

The latest research by London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has revealed the uphill struggle facing those in search of a...

After a decade of steady growth, the number of older renters is poised to increase rapidly over the next 10 years...

The founder of a luxury holiday lets firm in one of the UK’s tourist hotspots says even wealthy landlords are now...

The latest rental market snapshot from lettings agency Barrows and Forrester has revealed the hottest location for tenant demand. It says Dorset...

Data from London lettings agency Foxtons reveals that average weekly rental prices in May have surpassed the peak of 2022. The average...

New data produced by lettings agency Savills gives an indication of how the buy to let sector may be threatened by...

Investors and second home buyers contributed over a quarter of all property taxes in the last year according to a property...

The Financial Times says the Labour Party is poised to reject the increasingly shrill calls for rent controls made by the...

The latest data shows that while rents continue to climb, growth is starting to slow down.  According to Nicky Stevenson, managing director...

A lettings agency chief is operating a course to help landlords meet new requirements imposed by the Welsh Government. Landlords in Wales...

Rising numbers of landlords are likely to switch to specialising in holiday rentals and short-term lets in the months ahead, an...

Leaders Romans Group, a lettings agency network, is offering this advice to tenants. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to have a UK-wide...

The government response to a Freedom of Information request has shed light on the increasing number of homes in England and...

A lettings agency has identified the three most complained-about issues by tenants last year. All the tenants were in Greater London and...

The number of new prospective tenants registering at each branch of a Propertymark-member lettings agency held steady at 106 in March,...

Landlords who bought soon after the launch of the first buy-to-let mortgage in 1996 are retiring in increasing numbers.   Research from lettings...

A lettings agency says its research shows that higher interest rates have not been passed on to tenants through higher rent. Barrows...

Proposed minimum energy efficiency standards regulation in England could leave residential landlords facing a £17.9 billion bill, a lettings agency warns. The...

The controversial Section 21 powers are neither overused by landlords, nor abused by them - despite some organisations claiming otherwise. Research by...

The managing director of a major holiday lets firm is urging landlords to make their properties dog friendly if they want...

One in 10 landlords plan to exit the sector following the absence of any government help in the Budget. That’s the claim...

New buy to let purchases are increasingly being funded by cash rather than a mortgage, says Hamptons lettings agency.   So far this...

Property guru Phil Spencer has set out five reasons to keep faith with buy to let. In an article for Estate Agent...

Good EPC ratings are increasingly important for tenants when considering which properties to rent, it’s been claimed. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of...

Overseas buyers - likely in many cases to be investors - have taken a bigger stake in the wealthy enclave of...

A perfect storm is brewing in the lettings market with rents spiralling driven by increasing demand fuelled by workers returning to...

There were 108 new applicants registered per Propertymark member lettings agency branch on average in January, compared to just 64 in...

The flat is back in demand in Britain’s most expensive rental enclave, a lettings agency says.  Demand for apartments in prime central...

A new rental market analysis has revealed where in the UK has the highest proportion of private landlords.  Benham and Reeves analysed...

Skipton International, the Guernsey-licensed bank, has today announced the rollout of its Limited Company Buy To Let product following a soft...

Improving yields throughout 2023 may stop more landlords quitting - and, in addition, rental reforms are unlikely to be as bad as...

Research from Midlands lettings agency Barrows and Forrester shows the volume of homes entering the market for sale has almost halved...

Although most property sellers in the past year made a substantial gain, a new analysis shows that flat sellers - many...

A Build To Rent developer has released the first phase of apartments at what it describes as its flagship scheme -...

The share of Londoners purchasing property outside of the capital slowed in 2022, back towards pre-Covid norms.   That’s the view of lettings...

One of the UK’s leading letting agents has told landlords that they should permit pets because “it’s the right and proper...

Annual rental growth strengthened for the third month running, with average rents up 7.9 per cent across Britain on the same...

A holiday lettings agency has taken the unusual step of speaking out in favour of higher council tax for second home...

Changes to capital gains tax announced in Jeremy Hunt’s recent Autumn Statement will see the average landlord pay as much as...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

A former lettings agent who has become a sharp critic of landlords has made another attack - this time suggesting that...

New figures from London lettings agency Foxtons shows rents in the capital reaching new highs. In October, rental prices reached a record...

A former lettings agent who’s turned poacher is now claiming students are faced with what he calls “rip-off renting”. Ajay Jagota, who...

New figures from the Hamptons lettings agency show that rental growth is softening - although the overall rate remains high. The agency...

There’s been a big rise in the number of companies set up to hold buy to lets, according to a survey...

House prices could actual UP in 2023 - against the expectations of almost every property professional. That’s the view of Jonathan Rolande,...

Rising interest rates - which may rise further and dramatically in response to the government’s tax-cutting agenda - risk eroding the...

A lettings agency says demand for ‘bills included’ properties in London has rocketed since April - despite it costing tenants large...

The controversial rent freeze policy in Scotland has been described as being “in chaos” by a top lettings agency chief. In a...

The Scottish Government’s dramatic immediate introduction of a rent freeze and eviction ban could mark the beginning of the end of the...

A new analysis of the housing market by a leading rental sector expert appears to show little potential for a crash. Some...

The lettings agency chain Winkworth says the attraction of buy to let is waning for both institutional and individual investors. This is...

Rents across Great Britain rose by an average of 8.3 per cent over the last 12 months, marking a gradual slowdown...

A new market analysis by lettings agency Hamptons shows that the period from July 2020 and July 2022 saw the biggest...

A major lettings agency in London says the imbalance between the number of tenants and available rental properties continues to cause...

Bringing your pup on holiday is becoming more popular than ever. And with studies finding that ‘dog-friendly’ was one of the...

The Commonwealth Games, which begin today in Birmingham, could turbo-charge capital appreciation in the city by up to 15 per cent. That’s the...

Rental growth rates slipped back slightly during the early part of summer according to an analysis by the Hamptons lettings agency,...

Lettings agency Knight Frank says it doubts the current high levels of capital appreciation will be derailed this year by uncertainty...

Lettings agency Knight Frank says it doubts the current high levels of capital appreciation will be derailed this year by uncertainty...

A national lettings agency chain is offering what it calls “first-of-its-kind EPC+” to landlords. Connells says this will provide landlords with better...

London-focussed lettings agency Douglas & Gordon gives its rundown on what new landlords should know to get the most out of...

The most recent interest rate rise has swung the balance making it cheaper to rent than to buy, according to lettings...